AHC: Christian Algeria and Tunisia

Costs a huge amount of money for comparatively minor gain. The land itself isn't really worth colonising (for Europeans), more just extracting resources out of. Not really a cost efficient nor reasonable way to attract settlers.

I suppose that's reasonable, I totally didn't base the idea off of AlternateEagle's TL or anything.

The alcohol issue is...no, just no. France reintroduced the wine industry to North Africa to make all sorts of stuff

Well no wonder they stayed away from the stuff!

besides the people who didn't, who just say "ah well, Allah will forgive me."

Aaand those people are much looser in their faith then others and thus much more likely to convert to something else than say more religious of them.


Just because Islam says it's bad doesn't mean Muslims now and then (Ottoman sultan "Selim the Sot", name says it all) won't indulge in it if they want to.

Yes, and there are a great many Christians that are Homosexuals. Albeit they are again much looser in their faith (most likely) and would have a higher chance of leaving it for something else (even if the chances are still low they are still higher than before).
 
In Algeria there are some small christian towns in the Kabyle region. I think they converted during french occupation. Some people there are against everything arab, including Islam. The evangelical church is now using this to convert people there.
 
Given a POD after the Spanish succession War would you think that it is possible that ALL of modern Algeria has something like a majority Christian population without massive scale killings or forced expulsions?
 
I don't think that you could get Algeria to be majority Christian with a PoD as late as you're asking for, but I think you could get more conversion and a more harmonious relationship between the Algerians and the French if the Second Empire survives. Under Napoleon the III and the Second Empire, the Algerians were treated considerably better than they were under the Republic.
 
I don't think that you could get Algeria to be majority Christian with a PoD as late as you're asking for, but I think you could get more conversion and a more harmonious relationship between the Algerians and the French if the Second Empire survives. Under Napoleon the III and the Second Empire, the Algerians were treated considerably better than they were under the Republic.

Any reason why that was? I'm curious to know.
 
Any reason why that was? I'm curious to know.
It went both ways actually. From what I remember, under the IInd Empire, it was a military rule. So the Algerians were under the rule of those who had beaten them in a somewhat fair fight, to the victor the spoils.

After, it was ruled by the civil administration, something a lot of tribal chiefs resented.

There's also the fact that before the IIIrd Republic, all were subjects in the natives of Algeria. After it was only the muslims
 
Any reason why that was? I'm curious to know.

I believe Napoleon III restricted European settlement to the coastal regions, whereas the Republic opened up the interior to settlement. This inevitably led to conflict with the native Algerians and the government naturally came to the defense of the settlers.
 
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